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I have been looking for a decent free text editor, similar to Ultra Edit. I like jEdit a lot but there is one feature I am missing. In Ultra Edit, I can record a macro that edits a given line and then replay that macro so that it runs until the cursor reaches the end of the file. Is there a way to do this in jEdit?

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You may try the Action Bar for repetition.

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jEdit supports recording and playing back macros; both temporary and saved. Ctrl+m Ctrl+m starts recording a temporary macro, Ctrl+m Ctrl+s stops recording, and Ctrl+m Ctrl+p plays the macro.

Full documentation is available in chapter 8 of the jEdit users guide.

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Thanks James. I know how to record macros. I know how to play macros one at a time. However, I occasionally need to perform an action on 10s or 100s of thousands rows and the keystroke method causes flair ups of the old carpel tunnel syndrome. Ultra edit has the ability to run a given macro until the EOF is hit. I'm thinking that I may need to write a macro that will do this but don't want to re-invent the wheel. – wcm Sep 11 '10 at 19:33
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